JoAnn Park, LCSW

JoAnn Park is a licensed clinical social worker with thirty years of practice in New York. She draws on a mix of approaches and adapts them to each person's needs. Her work often focuses on anxiety, depression, and substance concerns alongside relationship and grief issues.

JoAnn aims for straightforward sessions. She listens first, then helps people set clear goals. She uses practical tools to reduce distress and improve daily functioning, and she also pays attention to deeper patterns that keep problems repeating.

Over her career she has worked extensively with addiction and is familiar with Alcoholics Anonymous approaches. She has long experience addressing panic, phobias, trauma, and sleep or eating concerns. That background helps when someone needs both immediate coping strategies and longer-term change.

Her style blends skills-based techniques with a client-centered stance. JoAnn often uses cognitive behavioral ideas to challenge unhelpful thoughts and build new habits. She also draws on emotionally focused and psychodynamic ideas when relationships or early patterns shape current struggles.

She respects each person’s beliefs and life choices. Sessions are offered in English from a New York practice and JoAnn integrates mindfulness and solution-focused elements when they suit the work.

Approaches that translate to online care

JoAnn uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors; CBT is useful for anxiety, panic, phobias, sleep problems, and mood symptoms. She also practices Client-Centered Therapy which centers the session on the person's experience and helps build trust and self-direction. Emotionally-Focused Therapy appears in her work when relationship patterns and emotional bonding are the focus, helping people name and shift hurtful interaction cycles.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. JoAnn will talk with each person about goals and preferences, try methods that fit the issue, and adjust the plan as progress unfolds. That flexibility helps when someone needs quicker coping tools or deeper exploration over time.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video calls let people use face-to-face interaction for skills practice, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat or messaging can be used for brief check-ins or between-session support, and the variety lets people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy days.